4.5 Avoid maintaining unnecessary virtualized environments or containers
Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems
Remove unnecessary virtualized environments to improve efficiency and maintainability.
Success Criteria
- Unused environments:
Reduce the number of active environments by deactivating, offlining, or removing unused or redundant virtual and physical environments (e.g., containers and virtual machines) wherever this can be done without reducing required security, isolation, or compliance guarantees. Optimize active environments by tailoring resource allocations to actual workload demand, sharing common services, and eliminating duplicate tasks while maintaining necessary isolation.